Letter: Hypocrisy of many Democrats is ‘incredible’

To the Editor-

I will tell you a story.

As you know, I am a proud survivor of domestic violence/abuse. Just before we moved to Lowry AFB in Denver, we lived in Sparta, Wis., and my husband worked at Fort McCoy.

One night in 1996, police were summoned to our residence in Sparta—not by me. Remember, in those days, all we had were landlines. No computers, no tech. The neighbors had called them.

Upon entry, the officers witnessed and took Polaroid photos of me and every room. The bed was ripped apart. The mattresses and headboards were thrown against the wall. Closet doors ripped off and every item of my clothing strewn about—hangers and all.

In the kitchen, my husband had ripped every cabinet apart and the contents were thrown on the floor. Cereal, noodles, spices, my supper—you name it. All in a big, wet mess on the floor. He also ripped open the garbage contents.

Next, he was arrested. I was terrified. It got worse. I did not lodge the complaint—the cops did. I came to learn that when something like that happens, it doesn’t matter what the victim wants. Evidence is now in the legal system. No takesy backsies.

The reason I mention this is, later on, my husband’s attorney leaned on me hard to recant. “You will ruin his life. The government will fire him from his job. Where will YOU live? What will YOU do for money?”

Comes the day of the trial, and I am scared. In Stevens Point, my husband stole all my savings, my car, my antiques, and the gorgeous furniture my Grandpy made. Batterers do this to make you dependent on them.

I knew nobody in Sparta except the soldiers I worked out with in the Fort McCoy gym. My husband is mad. Real mad. Remember how I said I was terrified of the attorney’s words? Put that on top of all I already had lost.

We are going to take a detour now. Let’s make my husband an illegal—who Obama kicked out of America in 2013 with due process. Then he snuck back in illegally April of that year. He has been living in America since then.

BUT—today he is to appear in court to answer new domestic violence charges. His victims are in the courtroom ready to testify. Likely scared, like I was. Only the judge has a tantrum and lets him run out the back door of her chambers.

On March 18, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court with three counts of battery, domestic abuse, and infliction of physical pain or injury. “Flores-Ruiz was accused of punching another person 30 times, then he struck a woman who tried to break up the melee.”

Overall, this is an object lesson in Churchill’s truism: a lie can travel around the world before the truth gets its pants on. The truth takes longer to discern and explain than a falsehood. It’s much less efficient. Truth lacks the incendiary character of a terse, well-worded falsehood.

Explaining what actually happened and why arresting and charging the judge was legally proper just doesn’t give that quick, reinforcing dopamine hit craved by the front-line Democrat political warriors.

The judge has been suspended now—BY A COURT. I hope she gets a fair trial. This Judge Hannah Dugan knowingly committed obstruction of justice. She concealed an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest, and it’s extremely difficult to envision an alternate interpretation of the known facts that would exculpate Judge Dugan.

The hypocrisy of many Democrats on this issue is incredible to me. If you want to call out the Trump Administration for its immigration crackdown, one needs only point to the fact that they are deporting some people without any due process to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

But, defending a Wisconsin judge who aided and abetted the flight of an illegal alien, who was in her courtroom facing charges of physically assaulting two people, and who had already been deported once in 2013 by the Deporter in Chief—Obama—with due process, should be too much for any thinking person.

Clearly, Judge Dugan’s defenders are not thinking people. Or familiar with domestic violence. She ain’t Oskar Schindler, ladies & gentlemen.

Back to 1996 and my batterer’s trial. If that Wisconsin judge had spirited my ex-husband out the back door, I would not be here to write this.

I wrote this out today, as critical thinking in the Democratic Party is dead. It is all about fearmongering and Hitler and vandalism (burning other DEMS’ automobiles) and hating half the country. I want nothing to do with that.

We are all Americans.

Thank you for reading.

Jody Hurrish
Stevens Point